Results and Demos
Showcases
During the first year of the project, partners developed a set of showcases (i.e., hardware /software components that demonstrate state-of-the-art technologies available at some partners).
| Showcase | Responsible Partner | Description |
| BSS + particle filtering | FBK | Separation of multiple speakers and localization of the sources, based on a distributed microphone network. |
| SBSS-based AEC | FBK | Acoustic echo cancellation in a noisy environment based on distributed loudspeakers. |
| Text understanding | FBK | Text understanding based on a machine learning approach, including: - text preprocessing, target identification, frame identification, argument identification - production of an XML file embedding the text input augmented with frame-semantic information - related model training |
| Dialogue mock-up | NewAmuser | Dialogue management based on a close-talking interaction and on hand-crafted grammar-based understanding. |
| MEMS-array platform | ST Italy | Stand-alone system for recording, data transfer to a PC, and processing based on algorithms implemented during the first year. |
| Distant-talking ASR | FBK | Speech recognition with microphone arrays under controlled conditions. |
| ASR in Portuguese | INESC-ID | Baseline system with close-talking input. |
| ASR in German | TU Graz | Baseline system with close-talking input. |
| Front-end processing | ATHENA-RC-IAMU | Techniques performing speech enhancement. |
